That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.